{"product_id":"aftermath-9780753557884","title":"Aftermath : Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Harald Jahner\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eGermany, c 1945 to c 1960, European history, Second World War\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 Apr 2022 by Ebury Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harald Jahner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57321028485498,"sku":"9780753557884","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780753557884.jpg?v=1790669357","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/aftermath-9780753557884","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}